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A public health wish list

Ensuring clean drinking water, boosting cancer screening, providing incentives aimed at healthy eating, and addressing socioeconomic factors that affect health such as housing and insurance are some of the measures that should be emphasized to improve public health,…

Will detained immigrant children have safe drinking water?

Under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, some military bases are being considered as detention centers for immigrant children. But these sites may have drinking water contaminated with perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs—toxic chemicals that can be especially hazardous…

Overfishing threatens human health

People around the world are eating more fish. While this is generally good for their health, a researcher from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health cautions that the growing demand is putting a potentially catastrophic strain on…

Tracking mercury sources in seafood

It’s been known that exposure to the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) comes mostly from eating seafood. Now, a new Harvard study has found that most of that exposure comes from tuna and shrimp, and that seafood from the Pacific…